Thanks. The files are literally pages that I have up in various terminals at the moment--so caches. I think the only clue I have is that lynx is supposed to be caching in RAM, not on disk, according to my /etc/lynx-site.cfg settings. Laura Eaves writes: > Hi -- I haven't used lynx for a long time, but used to do some development > on it back a few years ago, and I seem to remember that some commented > internal debugging messages go to temp files in the current directory, not > in /tmp > Again, as someone else suggested, is this a standard release of lynx? did > you use an option that is seldom used that someone may have forgotten to > turn off debugging for? Have you looked at the contents of the files? > Good luck. > --le > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:11 AM > Subject: Re: lynx temporary files > > > Hi, Adam: > > Well, /tmp is 1776, which is the Fedora default, at least. Also, the > lynx I'm using is the default provided by Fedora, 2.8.5dev.16, which I > believe is unchanged from Fedora 2. I don't rightly remember when I > started seeing this, but I was surprised, because I, too, am accustomed > only to see these files in /tmp. > > Needless to say, though, that I have mangled the configuration in order > to make lynx more blind friendly. I have a .lynxrc and I have also made > system-wide changes using the new /etc/lynx-site.cfg mechanism. Looking > through both of these, I find nothing about where to write these files. > The closest I see is to put cache files into RAM, which I have turned > on. And, of course, these are cache, so what does that mean? > > > Adam Myrow writes: > > Is this a version of Lynx compiled from source or pre-installed? Is it a > > stable, or developer version? Are the permissions on /tmp 1777? Lastly, > > is Lynx deleting these files on exit? I've never had Lynx put anything in > > any place other than /tmp, and it always cleans up after itself, so I'm > > puzzled by this. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
